Boundless Horizons Limited by Human Frailty

The world is a large place. According to Google, our Earth has 197 million miles of Surface Area. That is enough room to park 61.6 Billion Honda Civics. In our lifetime, we will never see all the Earth offers. We will go to the grave with sights we will never see, smells we will never smell, tastes we will never taste, and much more. There is simply too much out there for us to fit into our tiny little lifetime. Now, does that mean we should do nothing instead? Probably not.

We should try to live a full life. Take the time we have to stop and smell the roses. Take the road less traveled. Get the adventurous thing on the menu. This is not meant to be advice so that you can take cliche photos and show off how amazing you are to your social media followers (who don’t care about you), this is about the fact that the progression of time is a one-way door and each day that passes the end gets one day closer to the end.

Now this is not meant to be all doom and gloom, quite the opposite. Life is beautiful, time is fleeting, adventure is out there (this is a reference to the Disney movie “Up”), so go do something.

So where am I going with this?

That is the wrong question. The correct question is “Where are you going with this?”

In “The Hearsts: Father and Son” by William Randolph Hearst, Jr., which details his life and the life of his father, there is a section that speaks about William Randolph Hearst Sr.’s final farewell to Hearst Castle, his lifelong project of building perhaps the most insane mansion-compound-ranch ever to exist. As his health declined Hearst was forced to move closer to his doctor and as the car pulled off down his windy 2.25-mile driveway lined by beautiful meadows with herds of Zebras he looked out the window to his life’s greatest creation knowing that he would never return. Although I am butchering the quote, he stated something along the lines of “Boundless Horizons Limited by Human Frailty.”